Yes to Life Chairman and Founder

Robin is Chair of the Board of Trustees. His daughter Bryony contracted cancer aged 9, dying at 23 after two recurrences. The immense difficulties the family faced making their own treatment choices prompted him to set up the charity to help others in similar situations.

Founder, Patient Led Oncology Trials

A former investment banking technologist, a cancer scare prompted Mark to investigate Integrative Oncology, seeking advice and treatments from top international experimental doctors. Despite the treatments working, the costs led him to explore mind-body methods. He found effective, affordable approaches. He is a consultant for some of world’s leading immunotherapy clinics and biotech companies and board member of Cancer Choices, a charity set up to evaluate the science behind alternative cancer treatments. He is currently authoring a book tentatively titled “The Endgame for Cancer: How Patient Empowerment Can Hack Cancer Outcomes,"

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Dr Med Hüseyin Sahinbas at the Practice for Hyperthermia at the Pradus Medical Center am Kaiserteich studied medicine in Antwerp and Aachen, and he was one of the first students who enrolled at Witten/Herdecke University. Dr Sahinbas is an award-winning specialist for radiology and radiation therapy, and was recognised with the FOCUS award in 2019. As an international expert for Hyperthermia, radiation therapy and biological cancer therapy, Dr Sahinbas directs the Training Center for Hyperthermia and Complementary Medicine and also serves as the president of the German Society for Hyperthermia (DGHT).

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Joachim Drevs studied medicine in Göttingen and worked at numerous domestic and foreign hospitals until 2012. He completed his training in Freiburg in 2005 and has been a Professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg since 2009. Prof Drevs is co-editor of the newsletter ‘Angiogenesis’, the specialist journal ‘ISRN Oncology’ and the ‘World Journal of Hepatology’. He is a member of the German Society for Internal Medicine, the German Cancer Society, the American Association for Cancer Research), the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Working Group of Internal Oncologists and the Expert Council the Patient-Oriented Aftercare Foundation and the AERES Committee of the French Ministry of Health. Prof Drevs closely monitors the development of cancer medicine. He reads all important clinical trials and checks which approaches are most promising. In May 2020, Drevs and colleagues published the pilot study “Effect and tolerance of an immunotherapy made from one's own cancer cells in advanced cancers” in the ‘Journal of Clinical Oncology’. In 2020 his book ‘Integrative Oncology. Definition - Contents - Meaning’ was published.

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Gary M. Onik, MD, while still in radiology residency training in 1982, described a brand new cancer treatment concept – image-guided thermal tumour ablation (destruction). His new procedure demonstrated a brand new approach to destroying a tumour through freezing or heating and then leaving it in place to be removed by the body rather than by surgery. With it, Dr. Onik literally created an entirely new field of medicine. He went on to develop the first new potentially curative treatment for unresectable liver cancer patients as well as the instrumentation and techniques that allowed for the cryosurgical ablation of prostate cancer, now an accepted alternative to radiation and radical prostatectomy. In 2007 his development of “Irreversible Electroporation” (IRE), embodied in the “NanoKnife”, was the first of its kind, now being used to successfully treat inoperable pancreatic carcinoma. One recently published study indicated it can double overall survival time. His latest work, using immunotherapy to treat metastatic cancer, offers hope to those patients with literally no other options.

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Dr. Carbonell Esteve is a specialist in Regenerative Medicine. He has more than 40 years of experience in the profession and extensive training in different areas of the specialty. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Valencia, has a diploma in Social Medicine from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, in Public Health from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and in Clinical Oncology from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. In addition, he has also been director of the Major Outpatient Surgery Unit at the Ministry of Health of the Valencian Community and director of the Research Program in Gynecology-Obstetrics at the Eusebio Hernández Maternidad Obrera Hospital. Dr Carbonell currently serves as director of the Mediterranean Medical Clinic.

Medical Doctor

Oscar is an unconventional Medical Doctor. He specialises in lifestyle medicine, is a certified Sleep, Stress Management, Recovery and Nutrition coach.

Certified Integrative Health Coach

Daphy is a certified Integrative Health Coach by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She specializes in somatic work, nervous system regulation, and emotional release.

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